Skeptophilia

On July 7, 2005 , an Islamic suicide bomber detonated an explosive device on a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square, London, killing thirte...

About ten years ago, some students in my AP Biology class decided to do an experiment on false memory as their final project. The setup was ...

Yesterday I was in my car on the way to an appointment in Ithaca, and I was listening to some classical music on satellite radio.  The annou...

Sometimes science uncovers things that are profoundly unsettling.  The problem is, as Neil deGrasse Tyson pointed out, "The good thing ...

In the movie Memento , the main character, a fellow named Leonard Shelby, has anterograde amnesia, a brain disorder that prevents the format...

Two days ago, I was in my car on the way to a gig with my band, and I was listening to some classical music on satellite radio.  The announ...

I've always had a fairly good memory -- for certain things, at least.  I usually lecture my classes without notes, for example.  I find ...

Okay, this post may be a bit off-the-wall.   I'm perfectly willing to believe that what I'm going to say here might be entirely bogu...